Baked Good Recipes

Old-fashioned double-crust lemon pie filled with thin lemon slices in a buttery sugar-egg filling, topped with a cinnamon-sugar crust. Tart, sweet, and meant to be served warm.

Authentic springerle, the embossed German anise Christmas cookies. Egg dough pressed with carved molds, dried overnight, then baked low so the white design stays crisp. Aged to mellow the flavor.

Italian country spice cake (torta speziata): cocoa, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves with raisins plumped in warm water and a hit of brewed espresso in the batter.

European-style apple cake presses a rum-spiked shortbread base into a sheet pan, then tops it with grated tart apples, raisins, nuts, and cinnamon sugar. A sliceable, freezable bar-style cake.

Applesauce Walnut Cake with Butter Frosting recipe

Buttery bundt cake studded with poppy seeds and swirled with sweet filling, delivering bakery-quality texture without the fat thanks to buttermilk tang and fluffy egg whites.

Puccia, traditional olive-studded rolls from Puglia with a crackling crust and open, airy crumb. Built on a slow biga preferment with whole wheat flour and chopped olives folded through every loaf.

Brown sugar apple pie with a spiced crumb topping of cinnamon, nutmeg, and mace. Five cups of sliced apples heaped into a flaky shell and baked golden.

Sugarless cake leans on simmered raisins for natural sweetness instead of refined sugar, with oats, cinnamon, and a touch of artificial sweetener. Diabetic-friendly snack cake that still tastes like dessert.

Bizcochitos are the official state cookie of New Mexico: lard-based shortbread perfumed with anise and sweet wine, dusted in cinnamon sugar, and baked into delicate flaky rounds. The traditional Christmas and wedding cookie of the Southwest.

Soft, golden drop cookies loaded with flaked coconut and brightened with fruit juice and fresh orange zest. Sweetened with sugar substitute, these diabetic-friendly cookies come together in 40 minutes with no mixer needed.

Maple syrup oatmeal cookies use real maple syrup as the only sweetener (no white or brown sugar). Soft, chewy, and naturally sweetened with two dozen cookies in 35 minutes.

Kahlua pecan pie cookies with a buttery brown sugar cookie cup filled with a caramel pecan center spiked with coffee liqueur. A two-bite spin on pecan pie.

Potato fudge cake is an heirloom chocolate-spice cake made moist and tender with grated raw potato, warm spices and almonds, crowned with gooey marshmallow icing and a bittersweet chocolate drizzle.

Malted milk cookies fold chopped malted milk balls and unsweetened chocolate into a brown-sugar drop cookie for a chocolate cookie with crunchy candy pockets. A diner-style malt shop treat.

Sweet potato pecan pie with a buttery brown sugar streusel topping. Two Southern holiday classics in one pan, with a silky custard filling and a crunchy crown.